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🔥 Vitalik recently shared a new idea for building stablecoins on Ethereum. Instead of the current way — where you deposit ETH, borrow dollars against it, and risk getting liquidated if the price drops — he suggests splitting the ETH into two tokens. One token works like a stable dollar with much lower risk of big losses. The other token takes the upside when ETH goes up. These two tokens always add up to the original ETH, so there’s no debt and no forced liquidation when prices fall. This approach could become a new trend in DeFi. It trades a small amount of price drift for a much safer and simpler system that doesn’t rely on constant price monitoring or sudden liquidations. Ethereum has always moved forward because of people and teams willing to try new ideas early. We need more projects experimenting with concepts like this to help the ecosystem grow stronger.

pudgy penguins shut down their mobile game after 1m downloads and app store leaderboard placement. 2m toys sold at walmart, manchester city partnership, 100b GIF impressions, NHL sponsorship. the strongest brand distribution in crypto history and they still couldn't monetize a game. mythical games sunsetted pudgy party development. uncharted killed fishing frenzy and gangster arena on ronin and blast. three studios, three failures, same quarter. if pudgy can't make gamefi work with that level of brand penetration and capital, the model is dead. the only projects surviving in the space are TCG collectibles. collector crypt is pulling $8.6m in monthly fees ($103m annualized) because collectors buy cards the same way they've bought pokemon and magic for decades. the business model predates crypto and works without it. gamefi tried to replace "fun" with "token emissions" and it turns out when prices fall, mercenary users leave and never come back. crypto's value accrues to financial infrastructure, not entertainment wrappers

Mikal Bridges